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Sarasota Ballet Review: The Beginning of the 30th Anniversary Season
October 23, 2020: Sarasota Ballet Review of Program 1 of their Digital Fall Season which celebrates British choreographic legend Sir Frederick Ashton.
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National Ballet of Canada Review: The Sleeping Beauty
January 30, 2020 National Ballet of Canada The Sleeping Beauty Washington, D.C. For a ballet that is so familiar with audience members of all ages, there were some surprises during National Ballet of Canada’s The Sleeping Beauty at The Kennedy Center last night. Rudolf Nureyev’s 1972 production of this fairytale classic does not skimp on…
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San Francisco Ballet Presents The Sleeping Beauty
San Francisco Ballet will perform Helgi Tomasson’s The Sleeping Beauty, a production that premiered in 1990. It is choreographed after Marius Petipa’s 1890 version, maintaining Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s timeless score. This epitome of classical ballet is set in Russia in the 17th and 18th centuries, Jens-Jacob Worsaae‘s set and costume design reflecting this period in history.…